Richard Tol

Richard Tol
Professor Richard Tol is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, where he is responsible for the research areas energy and environment.He holds a Doctorate in Economics and a Masters of Science in Econometrics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is co editor-in-chief of the journal Energy Economics. He is the youngest lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

He describes his key areas of expertise as including the economic impacts of climate change (particularly sea level rise, water resources, and tourism), international climate policy, greenhouse gas emission reduction, integrated assessment modelling, and applied econometrics.

Climate Sceptic and/or contrarian
Wikipedia states according to Tol "the impact of climate change is relatively small". He was also among the US Senate Republican Party's "list of scientists disputing man-made global warming claims", which stated that Tol "dismissed the idea that mankind must act now to prevent catastrophic global warming". Further insight into Tol's position can possibly be gleaned from this quote in a blog post defending Bjorn Lomborg "Climate is defined as the 30 year average weather. Statistics is therefore at the core of climate science." "

Afiliations

 * Academic Advisory Council Global Warming Policy Foundation
 * Research Professor Economic and Social Research Institute based in Dublin Ireland
 * Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 * Associate, Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University and Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Science,Hamburg, Germany
 * Copenhagen Consensus Center 2009 panel

External resources
Richard Tol's Blog http://ipccar5wg2ch10.blogspot.com/

External articles
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